Curriculum Vitae

Education and positions:

1989 - 1994	Undergraduate studies, Nicholaus Copernicus University Toruń, major: mathematics, speciality: computer science
July 1994	Master's degree in mathematics, speciality: computer science
July 1994 - February 1995	Visiting scientist, University of Cambridge, Anglia
February 1995 - January 2003	Assistant, Department of Informatics (DoI) NCU in Toruń
July - September 1995	Visiting scientist, University of Cambridge, Anglia
August 2001	Visiting scientist, Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany
February 2003 - June 2003	Lecturer, DoI NCU, Toruń
June 2003	PhD in computer science, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences
July 2003 - September 2003	Assistant, DoI NCU, Toruń
November 2013	Application to the Central Committee to conduct the habilitation process (hab. book entitled "Meta-learning in decision tree induction").
October 2003 -	Adiunkt (assistant professor), DoI NCU, Toruń

Research projects:

1995 - 1997	"Neurofuzzy Systems", State Committee for Scientific Research (SCSR) grant - Investigator
1998 - 1999	"Adaptive systems in applications to the analysis od medical and psychometric data", SCSR grant - Investigator
2000 - 2002	"Theory and applications of computation intelligence methods", SCSR grant no 8 T11C 006 19 - Investigator
2005 - 2007	"Selection of information", SCSR grant no T11C-07128 - Main Investigator
2005 - 2007	"Meta-learning", SCSR grant no T11C-06928 - Main Investigator
2008 - 2010	"Information Based Feature Selection C++ Library InfoSel++", SCSR grant no N519 -150633 - Investigator
2010 - 2012	"Meta-learning in decision tree induction", MSHE habilitation grant no N N516 445038 - Principal Investigator

Software projects:

1999 - 2004	"GhostMiner" data mining system. Cooperation with FQS Poland (Kraków).
2005 -	"Intemi" system for computational intelligence projects, also for meta-learning.

Data mining contests - team with Norbert Jankowski:

3rd place in NIPS 2003 Feature Extraction Challenge.
1st place in ICAISC 2006 Handwritten Digit Recognition Contest.

Teaching experience:

1995 -

Teaching the following subjects at NCU (about 260 hours a year on average):

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Financial and Actuarial Mathematics
Structural Programming
Programming in C
Pascal and Numerical Methods
Object Oriented Programming in C++ and C#
Advanced Object Oriented Programming
Numerical Methods 2
Programming in Logic
Network and Communication Programming

Scientific conferences and workshops attended:

First Isabelle Users Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 18-19 September 1995.
Open Systems and Information Dynamics, Toruń, 19-21 March 1996.
Second Conference on Neural Networks and Their Applications, Szczyrk, 30 April - 4 May 1996.
Colloquia in Artificial Intelligence, Łódź, 19-21 December 1996.
Intelligent Information Systems'97 - Zakopane, 9-13 June 1997.
Third Conference on Neural Networks and Their Applications, Kule, 14-18 October 1997.
European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN'97), Brugge, 16-18 April 1997.
II Konferencja Internetu Medycznego, referat pt. "Sztuczna inteligencja w medycynie", Kraków, 28-29 November 1997.
Open Systems and Information Dynamics, Toruń, 3-5 March 1998.
Intelligent Information Systems VII, Malbork, 15-19 June 1998.
Third International Seminar on STATISTICS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE, Warszawa, 24-27 June 1998.
Colloquia in Artificial Intelligence, Łódź, 28-30 September 1998.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN'99), Warszawa, 13-15 September 1999.
4th Conference on Neural Networks and Their Applications, Zakopane, 18-22 May 1999.
Intelligent Information Systems VIII, Ustroń, 14-18 June 1999.
Intelligent Information Systems 2000, Bystra, 12-16 June 2000.
5th Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing, Zakopane, 6-10 June 2000.
Bioinformatyka w Toruniu (BIT'02), Workshop, Toruń, 5-7 June 2002.
6th Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing, Zakopane, 11-15 June 2002.
Joint Conferences International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and International Conference On Neural Information Processing (ICANN/ICONIP) 2003, Istanbul, 23-26 June 2003.
7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane, 7-11 June 2004.
Bioinformatyka w Toruniu (BIT'04), Workshop, Toruń, 2-3 July 2004.
Inteligencja obliczeniowa w selekcji informacji, analizie języka naturalnego, problemach meta-uczenia, Bachotek, 13-16 maja 2005.
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Warszawa, 11-15 September 2005.
5th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Rio de Janeiro, 6-9 November, 2005.
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Honolulu, 1-4 April 2007.
Bioinformatyka w Toruniu (BIT'06), Workshop, Toruń, 14 April 2007.
Computer Recognition Systems (CORES) 2, Wrocław, Poland, 22-25 October 2007.
International Joint Conference on Neural Network, Orlando, Florida, USA, 12-17 August 2007.
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, 1-6 June 2008.
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane, Poland, 22-26 June 2008.
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane, Poland, 13-17 June 2010.
Joint International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems and Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, Wrocław, Poland, 23-25 May 2011.
Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York, USA, 29 August - 3 September 2011.
International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, Gdynia, Poland, 21-23 September 2011.

Invited, not printed presentations:

"Formalizing Mathematics inside Theorem Provers", Conference: Open Systems and Information Dynamics, Toruń, 19-21 March 1996.
"Extraction of logical rules from backpropagation neural networks", University of Antwerp, 15 April 1997.
"Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", II Medical Internet Conference, Kraków, 28-29 November 1997.
"Information Selection for bioinformatics data", BIT'04, Toruń, with Norbert Jankowski.
"Will GhostMiner find everything?", BIT'04, Toruń, with Norbert Jankowski.
"What's new in miners?", BIT'06, Toruń, with Norbert Jankowski.
"Meta-learning in decision tree induction", Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN, Warszawa.

Other scientific and organizational activity:

The book entitled "Meta-learning in decision tree induction", Springer, 2013.
Co-edition of the book "Meta-learning in computational intelligence" printed by Springer-Verlag in 2011.
Membership in program committees of international scientific conferences.
Numerous reviews of articles to scientific journals and conference publications.
Membership in enrollment committee for 2nd degree of informatics studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2012, 2013.
Membership in the Supervising Council of the Academic Entrepreneurship Incubator, Nicolaus Copernicus University, since 2013.

Popularization of science:

February 2001	Radio discussion on Artificial Intelligence. Program IV, Polish Radio.
March 2001	Radio discussion "The age of Artificial Intelligence". Radio PiK.